and if you have a fast enough cpu, you can use
lame to real-time encode
the data. That does marvelous things to reduce the amount of disk
space
needed.

I have found it is best just to have a constantly encoding stream
running
that a little small program can quickly start writing data to disk,
ecasound takes a while to fire up, thus one might miss the first
few
seconds of audio.

_J

In the new year, Kai Vehmanen wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Kimmo Koli wrote:
>
> > I'm wondering how to make a timer controlled recording, like a
VCR for
> > audio. Of cource I can start a recording with at or cron, but
how to end
> > it gracefully so that a clean wav-file results. Or should I
just record
> > raw headerless PCM?
>
> You can use the "-t:seconds" option for specifying
processing
> time ('seconds' need not be an integer). This should do it. 'at'
and
> 'cron' will handle the rest.
>
> > The other problem is that how long a 44.1kHz stereo recording
can I do so
> > that it is also playable/editable. I have now a 10GB recording
partition
> > so I can record quite a bit...
>
> Well, with ecasound (and other programs using libecasound), file
size is
> no problem. Only thing you have to be worried about is your
kernel
> (whether it supports file sizes >2GB).
>
> --
> Kai Vehmanen <kaiv@wakkanet.fi> -------- CS, University of
Turku, Finland
> .
http://www.wakkanet.fi/ecasound/
- linux multitrack audio processing
> . http://www.wakkanet.fi/sculpscape/ - ambient-idm-rock-... mp3/ra/wav
>
>

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